Sadi Zaidi

Sadi Zaidi (4 May 1966-22 June 2012) was an imam of Palestine who was arrested many times for allegedly supporting the Hamas terrorist group with weaponry. He was killed in a missile strike on 22 June 2012 in the Gaza Strip.

Biography
Sadi Zaidi was born in Nablus, Palestine on 4 May 1966 to a Sunni Muslim family. Zaidi became an Islamic scholar after heading to the United Arab Emirates in 1994 to evade Israel's aggression in the region, and he returned to Palestine in 2000. Zaidi was arrested in 2001 on charges of terrorism, as the Israel Defense Force searched his madrassa and found twenty AK-74us in his basement. Zaidi pled guilty and served five years in a prison in Jerusalem, but upon his release, he continued preaching. Zaidi was again arrested in 2008 for three months for possession of stolen firearms, after the IDF discovered two stolen pistols in his house. Zaidi's criminal record culminated in the accusation that he supported the Hamas terrorist group with money from his madrassa, and Zaidi fled to the Gaza Strip to continue his preaching. Zaidi was killed in an Iron Dome missile strike on 22 June 2012 in an apartment with two Hamas soldiers after the IDF demanded that the government stop his offfenses.